A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Joel J. Ransom
Joel R. Ransom
Joel Ranson
Assistant Camera:
1986 Rad
Camera Operator:
1986 Rad
1993 When a Stranger Calls Back
1995 Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1996 Happy Gilmore
1998 Deep Rising
Cinematography:
1986 Rad
1993 When a Stranger Calls Back
1995 Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1996 Happy Gilmore
1998 Deep Rising
1999 G-Saviour
???? Liberty
Director of Photography:
1986 Rad
1993 When a Stranger Calls Back
1995 Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1996 Happy Gilmore
1998 Deep Rising
1999 G-Saviour
2000 Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
2002 Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
2003 Saving Jessica Lynch
2004 Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels
2007 Matters of Life & Dating
2007 Nora Roberts' Angels Fall
2007 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2008 The Tenth Circle
2009 High Noon
2009 The Stoning of Soraya M.
2013 Djinn
2014 Frontera
2014 Outcast
2016 The Young Messiah
2019 Infidel
???? Liberty
First Assistant Camera:
1986 Loose Ends
1986 Rad
1993 When a Stranger Calls Back
1995 Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1996 Happy Gilmore
1998 Deep Rising
1999 G-Saviour
2000 Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
2002 Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
2003 Saving Jessica Lynch
2004 Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels
2007 Matters of Life & Dating
2007 Nora Roberts' Angels Fall
2007 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2008 The Tenth Circle
2009 High Noon
2009 The Stoning of Soraya M.
2013 Djinn
2014 Frontera
2014 Outcast
2016 The Young Messiah
2019 Infidel
???? Liberty
Photoscience Manager:
1986 Loose Ends
1986 Rad
1993 When a Stranger Calls Back
1995 Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1996 Happy Gilmore
1998 Deep Rising
1999 G-Saviour
2000 Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
2002 Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
2003 Saving Jessica Lynch
2004 Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels
2007 Matters of Life & Dating
2007 Nora Roberts' Angels Fall
2007 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2008 The Tenth Circle
2009 High Noon
2009 The Stoning of Soraya M.
2013 Djinn
2014 Frontera
2014 Outcast
2016 The Young Messiah
2019 Infidel
???? Liberty
Second Assistant Camera:
1983 My Tutor
1986 Loose Ends
1986 Rad
1993 When a Stranger Calls Back
1995 Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14
1996 Happy Gilmore
1998 Deep Rising
1999 G-Saviour
2000 Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
2002 Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
2003 Saving Jessica Lynch
2004 Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels
2007 Matters of Life & Dating
2007 Nora Roberts' Angels Fall
2007 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2008 The Tenth Circle
2009 High Noon
2009 The Stoning of Soraya M.
2013 Djinn
2014 Frontera
2014 Outcast
2016 The Young Messiah
2019 Infidel
???? Liberty
Cinematography:
2003 Battlestar Galactica
Director of Photography:
1993 The X-Files
2001 Band of Brothers
2003 Battlestar Galactica
2004 Traffic
2006 The Path to 9/11
2010 Caprica
2013 Delete
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.